Design

The Kingspan TEK Building System leaves ample scope for individual design. The panels are pre-cut in the manufacturing plant according to individual construction plans. The complete System is delivered to site ready for erection by the fully qualified construction team.

The Kingspan TEK Building System can be used to create the walls (loadbearing and non-loadbearing), roofs and floors of a complete building. Alternatively, roof and wall elements of it can be used individually with other non-Kingspan TEK Building System components. For example the Kingspan TEK Building System can be used as a roofing system in conjunction with masonry or timber frame walls.
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Internal / partition walls are supplied as kiln dried timber stud components.

Where cabled services are required, it is recommended that they be fixed into a timber or steel stud wall. However, where cabled services need to be fixed to an internal wall that is constructed from Kingspan TEK Building System wall panels there are two options

• single layer of minimum 15 mm plasterboard; or
• double layer of minimum 12.5 mm plasterboard.

Where cabled services do not need to be fixed to the Kingspan TEK Building System wall panel, a single layer of 15 mm sound resisting plasterboard can be fixed direct to the wall panel.
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The Kingspan TEK Building System can be considerably more air-tight than conventional constructions, achieving air leakage rates as low as 0.08 air changes per hour at normal pressures.

It is widely accepted that healthy buildings require a minimum air leakage rate of 0.5 air changes per hour at normal pressures. This is typically achieved with conventional construction techniques, but may not be achieved with buildings constructed using the Kingspan TEK Building System when both wall and roof panels are combined. Therefore additional ventilation may be a sensible and beneficial addition to a building constructed with the Kingspan TEK Building System.
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Buildings constructed using the Kingspan TEK Building System can be cheap to run from the viewpoint of heating bills because they can be so energy efficient.

You can use any conventional heating system but sizing and controls are important. Heating systems can be ‘down-sized’ considerably as heating demand can be very low or negligible. Controls are important so as to avoid overheating - a normal domestic heating regime could cause a building constructed with the Kingspan TEK Building System to overheat...
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The Kingspan TEK Technical Services Department offers free design advice regarding the performance and suitability of the Kingspan TEK Building System for any given project.
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